"While DPDK technology has the potential to provide a 10X performance improvement for cloud networking and security applications that often have very high-performance requirements for throughput, latency and cycles-per-packet, standard NIC cards without acceleration struggle with packet processing, which ties up valuable server CPU resources and creates a bottleneck that starves applications," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, CEO at Chelsio Communications. "We are pleased to demonstrate that T6 Unified Wire adapters can remove such inefficiencies to enable high-ROI deployment of NFV for private and public clouds."

Chelsio T6's DPDK based driver is ideal for high-instruction compute node and service node applications such as cybersecurity and telecom wired and wireless infrastructure applications. The architecture is based on packet processing on T6 processor, while using DPDK to execute other workloads on x86 processors. This lowers hardware costs, simpliﬁes the application development environment, and reduces time to market. The DPDK workload model also plays a critical role in Software-Deﬁned Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Chelsio T6 adapters also support an offload solution for Traffic Management, Packet Classification and Filtering, OVS Offload, and Crypto functions. Once combined and configured with the DPDK interfaces, these functions further enhance the DPDK functionalities by enabling network security, monitoring, and QoS for both incoming/outgoing traffic.

About Chelsio Communications

Chelsio is a recognized leader in high performance (1Gb/10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb) Ethernet adapters for networking and storage within virtualized enterprise datacenters, public and private hyperscale clouds, and cluster computing environments. With a clear emphasis on performance and delivering the only robust offload solution, as opposed to simple speeds and feeds, Chelsio has set itself apart from the competition. The Chelsio Unified Wire fully offloads all protocol traffic, providing no-compromise performance with high packet processing capacity, sub-microsecond hardware latency and high bandwidth. Visit the company at www.chelsio.com, and follow the company on Twitter and Facebook.